Suitable for Framing

I've playing with photography for about 15 years, and despite having a portfolio that I'm content with, I don't have much of anything that I would actually frame for display in my home. Perhaps my style of photography is vastly different than my taste in home decorating, or maybe I just don't think of photographs as art. My home is a 1927 English Tudor, so photographs seem to modern for me, but that is my perception.

Would you mind showing me what photographs you have framed to decorate your home, whether they be yours or a sampling of the Masters? Maybe if I see a photo of your homes, my "frame of reference" might be altered...

This is a recent photographs that I will likely frame, but family doesn't qualify as art to me...
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/phot...500/Adella.jpg

Um, this looks like a 120 format photo...

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Originally Posted by Robert Hughes

Um, this looks like a 120 format photo...

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It is. My question is is not format specific.

A 1927 English Tudor? Why not start doing albumen prints and hang those? If the printing process predates the house, it's hard to call it too modern for the house.

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Originally Posted by AF-ULF

A 1927 English Tudor? Why not start doing albumen prints and hang those? If the printing process predates the house, it's hard to call it too modern for the house.

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It isn't so much the type of print, as the typical subject matter and style of photographs that seems too modern. I'm wanting to be proven wrong, so what photographs have you hung on your walls?

Format aside, I definitely think she's art!

It's really entirely up to you what you choose to hang/display in your own home. Sounds like you may be caring a bit much about the judgements of others.

But, I'll answer your question. I only hang the best in my home – my photographs. You can see precisely (digital representations aside) what on my site.

This is one of my office walls:
http://www.rangeoflightphotography.c...OfficeWall.jpg

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Originally Posted by ROL

Format aside, I definitely think she's art!

It's really entirely up to you what you choose to hang/display in your own home. Sounds like you may be caring a bit much about the judgements of others.

But, I'll answer your question. I only hang the best in my home – my photographs. You can see precisely (digital representations aside) what on my site.

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Ben,

Thanks for the compliment and reply. I really like your work and your website.

Perhaps I am worrying too much, but more trying to be convinced that my portfolio is adequate wall decorations. Again, I'm proud of my portfolio, and really want to use my own stuff, but my photographic style seems to conflict with my home decorating. To better illustrate the point, here are some of my digital works and scanned photographs from my field camera:

http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/7730555-sm.jpghttp://thumbs.photo.net/photo/7730395-sm.jpghttp://thumbs.photo.net/photo/7730482-sm.jpghttp://thumbs.photo.net/photo/9242167-sm.jpg

More can be seen at Photonet.

Nothing wrong with being eclectic and displaying a variety of photography/art styles.

I have little of my own stuff on the wall, at least compared to what I produce. It's not a like/dislike thing or a confidence thing or a self-image thing. It's more matching the metaphor that the cobblers children have no shoes.

I don't have a portfolio assembled, but what I hang on my wall differs greatly from what I'd put in a portfolio.

I usually bring an assortment of prints out of the darkroom to make room for more to dry. My wife sometimes take an 8x10 family photo out of the bunch and puts it in a cheap frame on display. For digital, we have an overwhelming volume where there are so many nice kid photos, we can't choose just one, so once in a while she'll do a blurb book of my/our photos.

Most prominent on our walls are things by local artists in the main living areas. 2 wyeth prints, an old poster for a local festival, a local artist's painting, one of my photos, and have also framed a colorful painting my 5yo daughter has done. I've got a 4x5 cyanotype of my daughters on the fridge.

In my office I have a poster of painted race cars for the goodwood festival of speed, and a poster showing a square B&W photo by Lucinda Lewis of Briggs Cunningham D-type and E-type.

Upstairs, I have a John Paul Caponigro photo, a baby photo I took, a Peter Ralston photo. I used to have one of mine, a color abstract, but I took it to be exhibited instead of hanging on my wall.

What to frame and hang is a highly personal decision. Display prints that have meaning for you. Why limit yourself to some dubious theory of what counts as Art?

I've been photographing seriously for about 20 years. In that time I've framed four of my prints, one of my oldest daughter, and one of each of my three dogs, all sadly passed away. All of them are 8x10ish silver gelatin prints that hang along with a George Provost landscape in our entry hallway. My daughter has two prints hanging in her room, one from Murray Minchin, and one from Jim Becia, both members of this forum.

Of course I have tons of photographs, including at least 100 by other photographers, but I keep those in portfolio boxes.

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Originally Posted by mike_gray

Oh I don't like hang picture on wall. I like fixed picture.


Commercial photographer

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Huh? I wish I knew whether to be offended at the criticism or not. But at least l had balls enough to answer the OP's question in the manner he requested. The point is I hang what I like and this thread is not a critique of my work. In the case that I am offended, why don't you just take your bad manners and start your own critique discussion thread of my work, mike?

I hang this occasionally:

http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/c...9-m-mo2il6i2vh

And this:

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/FindingA.../I0045905A.jpg

In frames from the same time period (hand-forged nails used). I only put them up every once in a while to keep them from fading too badly -- both are from mammoth plate negs (albumen prints).

Vaughn

Thanks, Vaughn. I'm getting some ideas now, and those are both very nice choices.

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Originally Posted by ROL

Huh? I wish I knew whether to be offended at the criticism or not. But at least l had balls enough to answer the OP's question in the manner he requested. The point is I hang what I like and this thread is not a critique of my work. In the case that I am offended, why don't you just take your bad manners and start your own critique discussion thread of my work, mike?

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I don't think he was saying he didn't like your photo but rather that he didn't like hanging photos at all. That's how I took "I don't like [to] hang picture[s] on [the] wall." But I've no idea what he meant by "fixed picture" though. :confused:

OK, you asked...

My charming wife Sheryl pretty much made all the decisions on that one.

In our living room is a huge impressionist painting that she paid WAY too much for. I wish I'd known and could have stopped her...

Also other paintings.

In our office -- A cubist painting from the 1960s of my mom. This is absolutely my most valued possession. A contact print circa 1902 of my grandmother and her parents. A small print Willy Ronis sent me. A huge original drawing Edward Sorel did of the opera star Renee Fleming that was in The New Yorker.

In our hallway to the bedrooms -- a lovely night shot taken from an airplane by Ron Evans. Two 4x5 contact print landscapes I shot many many years ago. A family snapshot of me with my daughters. A small painting my daughter did of our dearly departed doggie Abbigail.

In my photography/junk room: A painting circa 1945 of a medicine man beating on a drum, pounding out a prescription. My dad's roommate in medical school painted this. I love it; Sheryl can't stand it. Three pictures in one frame I shot of Sheryl sitting next to me at a restaurant. She can't stand these, either, and said she'll put them in the garbage when I'm not looking.

In our master bedroom. Here it is: Many prints by Michael A. Smith and Paula Chamlee. A few landscapes by yours truly. Three Ansel Adams (cheapo Yosemite Special Edition) prints. A Peter Feresten print. Two animation cels from the original Flinstones cartoon, including one of Fred holding a Speed-Graphic type camera. A Robert Adams print.

What's not here?

A Mark Klett print that I sold when I needed to come up with the mortgage payment years ago. I really miss that print.

A Linda Connor print of five nuns in a temple. In storage. It's one of my favorites, I need to ressurect that one.

My own portraits -- Sheryl, like most people, consider it odd to hang pictures of others in a home. So they're in storage.

Two original "Geech" cartoons by Jerry Bittle. My friend who passed away too soon.

An original "Nancy" cartoon showing Nancy and Aunt Fritzi. Long story.

Anyway, all of these things -- on view or in storage -- bring me happiness.

I'd like to try a different avenue sometime -- only put my own work up. But I'll need a second house for that.